It's happening to lots of people who travel in my car when they get out, not just me. You maybe right about the seats giving me a charge though. I got out of the car and touched a metal door handle to a building and got shocked. It doesn't seem to have happened to me today where I've been touching the metal on the outside of the car as I get out, though my wife who didn't do that got a shock.If you touching the metal of the car is giving you a shock, then it's not the car that's the issue, it's you. That shock is your static discharging to earth through the car, earthing the car more isn't going to help, you need to disipate the charge you are building up, which is usually caused by wearing insulating shoes (e.g. with thick rubber soles) or synthetic fabrics of your clothing rubbing against the synthetic fabrics of the car seat.
Solution; wear natural fibres and real leather shoes
Anti static straps?
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Some of the better makes of car tyre have enough carbon black in them to make them discharge static from the bodywork, especially those made to be particularly good in the wet. Petrol tanker tyres have, by law, to have enough carbon black in them to safely discharge static and to be provably efficient at it. So when you change tyres it may go away. In the meantime if you grasp the door pillar before your feet touch the ground the static will discharge through the full area of your palm and you won't feel a pin ***** shock. Anyway, it stimulates the heart, or so my old dad told me... The better classes let the chauffeur take the hit 
I didn't say that it cured car sickness, I said it was marketed as such. No, of course it doesn't work for that. For a start, car sickness is not related in any way to static. And for the purpose of this whole thread, your tyres conduct electricity pretty well, due to the steel belts inside them. Certainly a lot better than a stupid rubber strip which usually doesn't even touch the ground.
If you touching the metal of the car is giving you a shock, then it's not the car that's the issue, it's you. That shock is your static discharging to earth through the car, earthing the car more isn't going to help, you need to disipate the charge you are building up, which is usually caused by wearing insulating shoes (e.g. with thick rubber soles) or synthetic fabrics of your clothing rubbing against the synthetic fabrics of the car seat.
Solution; wear natural fibres and real leather shoes
Out of interest how is a car actually earthed? Whatever thick rubber soles shoes you're wearing they usually won't compare to the four thicker rubber tyres on the car.
I get static shocks from our pickup in winter when it's dry, but it only happens when I'm wearing my trainers and not my boots. Sure it's not the car earthing itself through you?